context-layer

There is a lot of talk about context layers, and the best way to learn one is to build one. This is a toy, but the core ideas turned out to be simple.

• A data platform is full of signals: query history, who opens what, what is certified, what is refreshed. That is enough to rank definitions.
• Nobody will maintain a knowledge graph by hand, and the ones that exist drift. The graph has to build itself.
• A stateless agent is attractive: the ranking happens before the question, so the model behind the agent can change without losing anything.
• A context layer is there to be useful, not to hold the ultimate truth.

The bet is that a context built automatically, at least to start, and ranked on how the platform already behaves gets better as the platform is used. I do not know yet whether that holds. What I do like is that it uses the semantic models already there and asks for no new modelling.

So far the industry splits on who settles a conflict: the platform, by scoring it, which scales with usage, or a person, by reviewing it, which scales with reviewer time; I prefer the first, time will tell.

The harvest delivers one thing: a knowledge graph of the tenant - every term, its competing definitions ranked, and what feeds what. That graph is the context. It runs nightly on its own, an agent asks whenever, and the two meet at the graph without ever calling each other.

See it on a real tenant

Installing it, the ranking, what is harvested, the schema, the limits: run.md.

Licence

MIT - see LICENSE.